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A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.

A protuberant joint in a plant.

a common weed with jointed stems (Polygonum aviculare); knotweed.

The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers. Davenant.

Jointed. [Obs.] Bacon.

, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis. Lap joint, a joint made by one layer, part, or piece, overlapping another, as in the scarfing of timbers. -- Lap weld, a lap joint made by welding together overlapping edges or ends. -- Inside lap (Steam Engine), lap of the valve wi…

A plan; a scheme. [Slang] Dickens. Lay figure. (a) A jointed model of the human body that may be put in any attitude; -- used for showing the disposition of drapery, etc. (b) A mere puppet; one who serves the will of others without independent volition. -- Lay race, that part of a lay on which the shuttle travels in w…

To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.

he hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.Mycobacterium leprae, curable in most cases by therapy with a combination of antibiotics, but cases resistant to therapy are increasing.

ate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.

The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness; as, the ligature of a joint.

Formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t.

he slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts. Chaucer.

To relax; to loosen; to make less strict. The joints of his loins were loosed. Dan. v. 6.

e motion of a driver and that of a follower, due to the yielding of parts or looseness of joints.

on (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. -- Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new and full moons and the eclipses recur on the same days of the week and month and year as in the previous…

A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

To put out of joint; to luxate. [Obs.]

To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.